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Colorado is mailing Medicaid work-requirement letters to 377,000 people, and the word recovery is not on them. Plus Ireland's new health referral scheme, San Francisco down 24%, Milwaukee's $7.5 million, Proposition 132, and Valentina is still our Recovery Hero.
Read Issue #6Recovery Month, and the smallest thing that actually works. Australia's worst overdose year on record, Maine's first recovery high school, 1,765 flags in Grand Junction, and Valentina Atencio, who got clean because somebody called.
Read Issue #5What to do when recovery is going well. Eighteen recovery beds for mothers in South Dakota, D.C.'s settlement money, Baltimore's test strips, Colorado going the wrong way, and Kat is still our Recovery Hero.
Read Issue #4Two thousand people fill a Vermont fairground to talk about addiction out loud · eight new recovery beds for a town on Vancouver Island · a sober block at one of America's biggest music festivals · $50 million sitting still in Mississippi · 40% of Colorado jails still have no public policy on opioid treatment · the Medicaid ruling that didn't go the way 25 states hoped · plus our first Recovery Hero of the Month.
Read Issue #3British Columbia's lowest monthly toll in six years · the new Medicaid work rule and the 25-state lawsuit fighting it · naloxone vending machines in Maryland · a new recovery hub in Tennessee · two men who got out and now hold the door open · plus Book of the Month #2 and this issue's featured virtual meeting.
Read Issue #2Overdose deaths fall for a third straight year · Medicaid's new rules & what they mean for treatment · Dalton and Jenny's rewrites · staying clean is the floor, not the ceiling · Bobo's favorite corrupted line, and the patch for it.
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